In the spirit of full disclosure, I must tell you that I’ve always loved music. My mother played the piano in our home, and we who could carry a tune sang with her. I progressed from soprano to alto at about the sixth grade, to tenor for a week or two in middle school, and […]
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Hit-and-run choices
This letter is to the well-off looking couple driving the green SUV, whose N.C. license-plate number I recorded. I’m the owner of the red Honda Element that you rear-ended coming off I-240 West onto Merrimon Avenue at 2:11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb 2—and that you saw fit to drive past, staring, even though I pulled […]
Fossil fuel conundrum
In the Jan. 30 issue, Luc Joel Levin writes from personal experience of the ecological losses being suffered in his native land due to global warming [“Footprints in the (Lack of) Snow,” Letters]. There is no doubt that global warming is occurring. Calling it climate change seems to be in vogue. Unfortunately this seems to […]
Finding strength in community
Our televisions are filled with shows about psychics, prophets and mystics. Do we realize that these are about real people or think them only as fictitious stories? When will we learn to utilize the talents of these people? I am a mystic intuitive, foreseer of many future events. [I am the] inventor of glow-in-the dark […]
City on the brink
The blood is in the water: The ink is barely dry on the Ellington disaster when another (ugh) developer is shopping his vision for Asheville to our elected officials. His vision? More high-rise, twenty-plus story buildings in downtown Asheville. I will be curious to see how much more the voters in Asheville will allow the […]
Leave St. Mary’s in charge of St. Mary’s
On Jan. 29, I attended a Grove Park Sunset Mountain neighbors meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church. The meeting was sponsored by the Historic Resources Commission [of Asheville-Buncombe County]. The topic was the proposed renovation/construction by St. Mary’s [Episcopal Church] on Charlotte Street. The general tone of the meeting was opposition to what St. Mary’s […]
Keep your butts in the car
Kudos to Jeff and Karen Lazzaro for trying to do something to clear our streets of cigarette butts [“ButtBusters: A Litter Bit at a Time,” Xpress, Jan. 30]. Being in the local transportation business, I spend the majority of my time transporting visitors around our community. With all the litter along the interstate, the drive […]
We need all the tools
Yes, hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis and Tsuga caroliniana) are in grave danger throughout the eastern United States, and Patrick Horan described an overly optimistic scenario in his “Saving Hemlocks” [letter] on Jan. 30. While Horan is correct that biological controls are the best long-term solution to the hemlock wooly-adelgid epidemic, he does a disservice to the […]
Appropriate behavior and comments?
Is it appropriate for the city to admit they made (and make) mistakes? Don’t we hope the city protects the rights of an individual, or groups of individuals, with the same vigor as they protect the needs of a business with a well-connected attorney? Could it be appropriate for the city to accept responsibility for […]
Just the (global-warming) facts
This is in response to Douglas Stronblotz’s letter to the editor, “Wipe Up That Footprint” [Jan. 23]. Mr. Stonblotz is concerned with the politicizing of global warming. He fears that it’s a liberal issue designed to guilt the American consumer into riding bicycles and eating vegetables. In defense of the free market and consumer demand […]
When crisis becomes routine
Britney Spears returned to the hospital, committed because of a psychiatric disorder, which has received more press over the past weeks than the Hindenburg disaster. Whether she is truly bipolar or merely caught up in the sadness of a paparazzi-driven life, there is no question that something needs to give. The tragedy, however, goes far […]
Primary impressions
Well, primary season [has] heated up. For the Democrats, it’s a choice between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. I want my vote to go the person I believe should be the next president. Hillary Clinton is sharp, bright and forceful in the way she presents her ideas. Aggressive, even. Is this what we want? After […]
Presidential etiquette
It’s hard to know what expect next from a former president who seems to be losing his cool in the throes of this year’s Democratic primary season. Reportedly Congressman [Rahm] Emanuel and Sen. [Ted] Kennedy have told former President Bill Clinton to turn his criticism of Barack Obama down a notch, and … former Democratic […]
Millican: the other choice
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, and I believe it is referring to my candidate for the presidency, Tom Millican—the only one who is striking at the root of America’s problems (http://tommillican.com). The freedoms of America, laid out […]
Reading the cards
Listening to the news recently, I learned that cruise-ship travelers and those American citizens reentering the United States must now have a passport, birth certificate and identification with them. The possible due date of May 2008 for a national ID card brought to mind my mother’s old trunk from Germany. Rummaging around, I found what […]
V Is for violating modesty and dignity
On Feb. 14, women on campuses around the country will be celebrating “V-Day.” To the uninitiated, this might sound like an abbreviation for Valentine’s Day. But to “vagina warriors” at more than 1,000 universities in the United States, it stands for “Victory, Valentine and Vagina.” UNCA is one of 19 universities in the state, including […]
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AARP Tax-Aide
AARP Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest volunteer-run tax counseling and preparation service available free of charge to seniors and other low- and middle-income taxpayers. In 2007, 30 volunteers, who were trained in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service and the North Carolina Department of Revenue, helped more than 1,500 taxpayers file their federal and state […]
Burning desire
Since their 2003 debut Gallowsbird’s Bark, The Fiery Furnaces have left listeners swooning in a state of confused delight as they repeatedly trounce genre boundaries and make each record radically different from the last. Consisting of siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger and a rotating cast of support musicians, the Furnaces have veered from lo-fi, skeletal […]
Twilight zone of funk
Maceo Parker is the last of a dying breed. As one of music’s last true superstar sidemen, Parker has played his signature stuttering and stammering saxophone lines all over some of soul music’s most beloved songs. That’s him accenting James Brown’s grunts on classics such as “I Feel Good,” “Out of Sight,” and “Papa’s Got […]
Who’s afraid of the big, bad Witch?
Ever since we led a protest rite against Buncombe County officials’ sale of public parkland graced by a pair of magestic old magnolia trees to developer Stewart Coleman, the über-Republican Carolina Stompers have aimed religiously bigoted attacks at our Coven Oldenwilde—first through a video ridiculing City Council candidate Elaine Lite for participating in the protest, […]